-The Times of India BENGALURU: Successive droughts and depletion of groundwater table in Karnataka has destroyed a whopping 2.28 crore arecanut and coconut trees. "The state has witnessed low rainfall this year too and farmers are finding it difficult to source water even after drilling borewells up to 1,200 feet, the situation is getting worse," law minister T B Jayachandra told reporters here on Monday while pointing to an imminent horticultural crisis....
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Crops face moisture stress, drought threat looms large -Partha Sarathi Biswas
-The Indian Express According to experts, June has been a good month for the state, with farmers speeding up sowing. However, absence of rains towards the end of June, mostly in Marathwada and Vidharbha regions, had harmed the crops during the crucial growth phase. Pune: AS MAHARASHTRA reported more than 90 per cent sowing, moisture stress is now threatening the survival of standing crops in various parts of the state. As per...
More »Onion prices soar on supply squeeze -Vishwanath Kulkarni & Rahul Wadke
-The Hindu Business Line Scale Rs. 2,300/quintal; reports of traders hoarding the bulbs Bengaluru/ Mumbai: Onion prices at Lasalgaon, the country’s largest wholesale market for the vegetable, surged on Thursday to touch a high of Rs. 2,300 per quintal on tight supplies. The modal prices have almost doubled over the past two days and more than quadrupled since early July, when prices hovered around Rs. 500. Prices across the country are expected to...
More »Karnataka: Another drought year?
-Bangalore Mirror Reservoirs in the state are filled to only half their capacities, a first in 42 years Slowly, monsoon is weakening, and we have not got our share of rainfall yet. Barring Kalaburagi, all districts in the state have had poor rainfall — a clear deficit. In Bengaluru City, the shortfall is 52%. According to experts, the rainfall in the state has fallen by 20-55 per cent, from June 1 to...
More »India has begun to reverse 50-year-dry spell: MIT study
-PTI ‘North central region seeing much wetter pattern, with stronger monsoons over the last 15 years’ Washington: Monsoon has strengthened over north central India in the last 15 years, researchers from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have said, indicating a reversal in the general perception that the region has dried up in over a decade. Chien Wang, a senior research scientist in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, the...
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